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title: Identify the cricketing practice whereby a batter who knows himself… — Cheating at games and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the cricketing practice whereby a batter who knows himself to be out departs without awaiting the umpire's decision. Exam question 3 of lesson 93 «Cheating at games and sport» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 3 · Cheating at games and sport

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Identify the cricketing practice whereby a batter who knows himself to be out departs without awaiting the umpire's decision.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, batter, umpire · **What happens:** identify, cricket, know, be, depart, await · **To what, where:** cricketing practice, himself, decision · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 93 «Cheating at games and sport» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/93-cheating-at-games-and-sport/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:93-cheating-at-games-and-sport:e3:1
# text = Identify the cricketing practice whereby a batter who knows himself to be out departs without awaiting the umpire's decision.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cricketing	cricket	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	ccomp	_	_
14	departs	depart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	umpire	umpire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cricketing practice |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent practice=Theme |
| 2 | **cricket** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | a batter | himself *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **depart** | present | a batter |  |  |  |  | whereby *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **await** | gerund | a batter *not said here* | the umpire's decision |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **decide** |  | the umpire |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Walking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:93-cheating-at-games-and-sport:e3:o1:1
# text = Walking
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fielding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:93-cheating-at-games-and-sport:e3:o2:1
# text = Fielding
1	Fielding	fielding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bowling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:93-cheating-at-games-and-sport:e3:o3:1
# text = Bowling
1	Bowling	bowling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Appealing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:93-cheating-at-games-and-sport:e3:o4:1
# text = Appealing
1	Appealing	appeal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appeal** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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